Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1887-01-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
Fort Smith Tribune:-Killebrew
the prisoner in the U. S. Jail, who
is deranged, says that he is cured
and should be turned out of Jail so
that he can complete the air-ship
that he imagines he has invented.
Were there no other evidence of
his, insanity his air-ship theory
alone would prove it.
Commonwealth:-Robert Ream,
the brother of Winnie Ream Hoxie
died at Fort Smith, Arkansas, last
Friday night He has been a noted
character OF the Indian Territory,
as an adopted citizen ofthe Choctaw
tribe, for twenty years. He formely
lived in Wyandotte, Kansas, was
one of the Quantrell gang which
destroyed Lawrence, and John
Speer always supposed he was the
member of the gang who set fire to
his printing office and killed his
son.
Seneca Dispatch.-Tuesday sew
eral of our citizens visited the Split
log mines and also on Wednesday.
They report prospects flattering
out there. Some of our people are
beginning to have considerable
faith in the future prospects of
those mines, from the different
assays that have been made. 1t has
become a settled fact that there is
silver and gold there, and the only
question is as to the quantity that
exists. That is yet to be deter
mined. If that mine should prove
to contain a rich deposit it will be
the means of developing other
mines in the country.
Chetopa Advance:-We learn that
Henry Tritthart, who was shot re-
Gently, in the neck, by his brother
in-law, had an operation performed
to extract the ball, which
was supposed to have lodged
in the upper part of the
spinal column. The physicians cut
deep into the neck, removing sew
eral pieces Of bone, one piece hav-
ing actually become imbedded in
the spinal cord. The ball had
passed through this portion of the
spinal column, shattering tn G
bone and breaking the neck. Since
the removal of the fragments of
bone, Mr. Tritthart has been great
ly relieved. Nh. .Tritthart remarked
after the shooting you can't kill a
Dutchman with a sixshonter," and
we have about come to the same
conclusion. Mr.. Tritthart is we'll
to-do farmer and stockman, and we
note with pleasure his recovery.
Arkansas City Traveller There
is some danger of trouble brewing
in the territory. Capt. Forbush, in
command of the cavalry troop on
the Chilocco, is stringent in car
rying out his orders to remove all
cattle owners who have no lease
from the Indians, TO prevent hunt
ing parties depredating on the
game, and to stop the cutting of
timber. This is stirring up a bitter
feeling, aud a number Of men who
feel themselves Disseminated
against, have resorted to the
wicked practice of firing the
ranches. We hear of extensive de-
struction of pasture on the Chero-
kee strip and as the law is power
less to protect persons upon
whom this spite is wreaked, they
have taken into their own hands
the task Of mutual protection. One
of our citizens whose business car
ries him a good deal about the
Cherokee strip,tells Of encountering
seven range cattle during a recent
drive, blinded by the flames that
had destroyed their pasture and
wandering about objects of COM
miseration. What good is to be
accomplished by such incendiarism
we are at loss to understand.
Cattle owners have had disastrous
time Of it lately, and ifto ruinously
low markets, and the depletion
of their ranges through the winter
are TO be added the Banton destruc.
tion Of pasture and Improvements
they must either give up the strug,
gle as hopeless pursuit, or resort
To measures Of desperation. DIR.
Brown tells Of an adventure he
met with in the territory lately
which shows that incendiaTism
is not always a safe game. He
was driving to visit a patient after
dark, and struck a detonatinl
match TO light a cigar. Before
throwing the burnt portion Of the
match away he carefully extin'
guished il. At this instant his at
tention was arrested with the rougf
greeting, "It's a d-d good thinl
you put that match out, for If ans
harm had come from il woulC
have pu. hole right through you
II seems that at threatening timel
the cattlemen put out their pickett
who keep vigilant watch, and a,
they class incendiaries in the sam,
category with horse thieves, j
is evident that any evil disposed
person caught in the act Of iirinl
the pasture would receive a shor